Parky

I've explained the reasoning behind three options in the original post. But you never get the 'true' feeling as many just sit on the fence with an option like 3.

We're slipping. Christ Schalke and Spurs etc are tiny clubs.

These polls are always fecked unless you have a simple yes and no.

One year extension as a reward for his efforts would have been enough. 2 years is just insanity.

I would say Arteta is the most unsung. Great little player, better than Emre. I wouldn't say Alonso is unsung the papers go on about him all the time.

We should do this to Carr and babayaro first.. Aye.

Rafa has yet to be right about anything since he arrived on these shores.

Offer them some money and tell them to piss off.

Not all bad then?

I mean it's 2007 and the club are still in the throws of setting up a proper player evaluation network. ABSOLUTE FUCKING JOKE!!

This is what's wrong with the club...Too many people accept mediocrity.

It's delusional to think he won't leave if we carry on like this. IMO he'll give us one full season tops.

If you want to believe that that's what I said, who am I to tell you differently. The fact is they all make mistakes, each and every one of them: Carr, Bramble, Ramage, Huntington, Babayaro, Edgar, Moore, Solano, and even the golden-child Taylor!! *shock, horror* People can deny it all they like, it's true. And the reason for this? They don't have a fucking clue what they're doing, there is ZERO organisation, NONE. Look at the way we defend corners, look at the way we try and play offside, I've seen free kicks where we've had Taylor in the wall and people like Nobby marking up, for fuck's sake!! I've said it over and over again, but defending is about coaching and organisation, you don't need star players like your Woodgates of this world, just a good coach and a lot of time spent on the training pitch drumming it into the players' thick skulls. Hopefully this is what Pearson is doing, but it'll take a while to get it right, when it is, you'll notice it on the pitch. We've had a poor defence for donkey's years, regardless of who's played there, we could have had a backline of Maldini, Baresi, Moore, and Beckenbauer (I know, I know) and they'd still play like a bunch of idiots. The whole defending thing has never been taken seriously since before Keegan, the whole team needs to know what they're doing and quite simply they don't. Until they do, we'll continue to be shambolic at the back, it's not the fault of individual players, it's down to the coaching. Look at Greece: a team of legendary defenders ...sorry: a team of complete no-marks, but well organised, well coached no-marks, who knew what they were supposed to be doing and did it. We could learn a lot from that, but sadly I doubt we will, it's a hell of a lot easier to pin the blame on Titus, or Ramage, or the nextman, isn't it!! Point well made Indi. But one need not waste time looking for a culprit. GR is simply not good enough and never will be. Most of the time he sounds like some East End granny on vallium.

My dearest friends Brummie/Sniffer, In the case of ManUtd and Villa it is but Spring and the first week of Jan in the respective relationships. Let us wait and see what develops over the next season or two. Either of you two enlightened lads had a gander at Manure's debt servicing? And in the case of Villa well anybody bascially would have been a breath of fresh air compared to 'deadly' Doug. There are also the first signs of trouble at Chelsea and of course the last set of figures were £400m or so in the red, what would happen if Roman suddenly lost interest or decided to build more than two yachts a year instead and build a state of the art shipyard. What if Putin suddenly hit him for back taxes?? These things aren't as they seem on the surface and the only guaranteed revenue stream in football is the supporters. I wouldn't mind a great big fancy owner coming in with a good management team to put things right, by god we need something along those lines, but I don't want to throw all caution to the wind at the first sign of the Yankee/Arab $$. Btw some of my fav people are Americans. Manure debt management..big numbers: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/07/09/cnmanu09.xml

American's own Man Utd, they are taking over Liverpool, a Russian owns Chelsea and Americans looked at Spurs last year...How am I paranoid? In your own time sniffles.

The FA/PL whatever need to look at the rules for club ownership in this country and safeguards need to be put in place for responsible ownership. Football clubs aren't just businesses, they are part of the community and people's lives. Cali: What happens to the scoucers today could be us tommorrow.

.......yeah like Holywood laying waste the European and U.K. cinema by buying up all the distribution chains.

Fulham are pretty much shit. As good a place for a debut as any. If it were away to Man Utd that would be another story.

Let's hope the Gooch is an exception eh? On the contrary I want Gooch out now!111

Texas ffs!! What next refusing to pay tax on petrol and all carrying sidearms? Cars with 'Dukes of Hazzard' horns?! Americans are guranteed to ruin anything they touch.

Agreed.

They did go all out to buy Babel, but it was very last minute.

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They're from Texas ffs!! >